A pair of giltwood eagle console tables

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A pair of giltwood eagle console tables
Each surmounted by a marble top with an egg-and-dart moulded edge and vitruvian scroll frieze, the eagle with outspread wings and talons gripping rocks below, on a simulated marble plinth with a gilt foliate edge, redecorated
39¾in. (101cm.) wide, 35in. (89cm.) high, 16¾in. (45cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Sold Christie's, 5 April 1973, lot 28.

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Lot Essay

These small eagle consoles, with their vigorous open beaked pose, bear resemblance to those by the leading Edinburgh cabinet-maker Francis Brodie (d. 1782). A set of three eagle console tables, very probably by Brodie, were commissioned by Captain John Tennant, for Innes House, Morayshire. A further one was made by Brodie for the apartments of Lord Adam Gordon at Holyrood House in 1739 (F. Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, Leeds, pl. 24b and pl. 89b).

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